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The thing is Richt HAS run this type of offense before at FSU. The Sugar Bowl NC win over VT he spread out VT and Weinke picked them apart. They put up 40+ on a good defense that way. My problem is I suspect he may not be adjusting to the strengths and weaknesses of Kaaya and instead running his O the way he wants to run it. For example: no way you run RPO with BK as he really is no threat to run. Also maybe we take advantage of Kaaya being a streaky rhythm passer and call a couple of plays to get him warmed up (easy completions) then go downfield in a 4 wide set for several plays in a row.
Guys...again...
RPO's have NOTHING to do with QB runs.
That's not entirely true, but I'm supporting you on these posts because it doesn't have everything to do with QB runs. There seems to be a lot of confusion about RPO on here, and I'm not sure why. It's been broken down time and again.
- Not every RPO is reading the DE; actually, many of them are reading a "stuck in between" LB who is responsible for, say, the "B" gap in run support and the stick route from the slot WR. When he makes his decision on which to cover, the QB either hands off or passes it over him.
- Some RPOs have three options: handoff, QB run, then bubble screen or the like. This is NOT the RPO Richt is running with Kaaya.
- We *have* done well with the passing option in the RPO this year and against FSU. In the GaTech game, it got Coley a TD by zipping it passed a pinching LB's ear. If I remember correctly (from watching in the stadium), in the 3rd quarter, on that huge, huge play where Stacy Coley got tripped up going into the endzone (then got a 5 yard neutral zone infraction immediately after because he was asking to be pulled out of the game and we went tempo), that was also an RPO.
In any case, we're not reading DEs and Kaaya isn't intended to run. We also ran it too much anyway, and Richt apparently admitted that much.
We've had a couple good plays with the RPO game. We run it so much we better have a couple good plays with it.
Problem is that overall it's been an ineffective and spotty element to the offense and Kaaya doesn't appear comfortable with it. It looks awkward and it's not working enough of the time as is evidenced by the 2nd half debacle of 88 yards against a **** D.
So, yeah, we can point to a couple good results we've had with it. But overall it's been ineffective. And the offense is disjointed and seems to be trying to do too many different things.
We haven't had a couple good results, we've been taking chunks out of defenses with it. I charted one of our games and we were averaging over 9 YPP with our gun/RPO stuff.
All those bubble screens that we take for 8+ yards a pop...those are RPO's.
When Walton/Yearby breaks a big run out of the shotgun...it's usually due to an RPO.
Coley's long TD against GT was an RPO.
It's our best offense.
I looked back and it actually wasnt the pass to Coley where he got tripped up in the 3rd quarter. It was a play or two before that where we ran the RPO to Richards on a quick slant. Man, Richards is our guy. We need to run those in breaking routes repeatedly to him and leave Berrios in the slot or moving around inside.